a few weeks ago. Not the best film to talk about though just after seeing it, you are left sort of stunned, even though you know the story. It made me listen to Joy Division once I got home. I want to see it again.

a) It couldn't have been just a TV drama, due to all the slightly leftfield narrative devices and all.

b) Tony Wilson is a more compelling central character than Ian Curtis (we know exactly what happens to Ian Curtis, but we didn't know how the Tony Wilson story ended when 24 Hour Part People came out, and neither did it, nor even now does it, particularly matter, as he made his impact through his passion for other people's work, not through his own)

c) Its openly loose-ended, whereas Control tries not to be yet still very clearly is, because it fails to properly link the two main parts of the drama, namely Curtis' ill-advised early marriage to Deborah and then his suicide as a result of that, due to a flat middle part where we see him forming the band (not necessary, as we know already exactly what happened there) and also the fact that in the early part, they use the same, even-too-old-to-be-playing-23-year-olds actors.